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African Agriculture Inc., une société d'investissement basée dans un espace de travail partagé Regus au neuvième étage de Park Avenue à New York, cultive 300 hectares (740 acres) de luzerne vert émeraude à l'est de Saint-Louis dans une réserve naturelle désertique appelée le Ndiael. La ferme tire son eau du lac de Guiers voisin, alimenté par un canal venant de la rivière. Seule réserve d'eau douce du Sénégal, le lac fournit la moitié de l'eau de Dakar, la capitale du Sénégal.

Bloomberg exposé on Frank Timis' plan to turn Les Fermes de la Teranga (ex-Senhuile) into a major source of animal feed for the Gulf States and the implications for Dakar's water supply

L'Arkansas a ordonné mardi à Syngenta de vendre 65 hectares de terres agricoles dans l'État américain dans un délai de deux ans parce que l'entreprise est détenue par des Chinois, ce qui a suscité une vive réprimande de la part du producteur mondial de semences.

Arkansas ordered Syngenta to sell 65 hectares of farmland in the US state within two years on Tuesday because the company is Chinese-owned.

Two TIAA subsidiaries, Global Ag Properties and Premiere Ag Properties, purchased 50,000 acres of land in Arkansas that were stolen over 100 years ago from Black farmers in one of the largest massacres of Black people in US history.

Four years after a private equity firm merged two of the nation’s largest peach farmers into a single entity, the firm is basically worthless.

A California county board of supervisors voted to uphold a decision rejecting a project to construct three water storage reservoirs on former Harvard University land holdings in central California.

Stop Harvard Land Grabs continues to demand that Harvard give full transparency about its land investments, return land back to communities, pay reparations, and adopt a policy against future farmland investments.

In the US, the National Family Farm Coalition is advocating for the Farmland For Farmers Act introduced by Senator Cory Booker in July of this year.

Cuyama Valley farmers and ranchers have launched a boycott of supermarket carrots to protest a water rights lawsuit that was filed against them by Bolthouse and Grimmway farms, major carrot farmers in the valley.

Financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops that reap high prices in export markets.

Fears of China buying up farmland in the United States have been grabbing headlines despite the fact that China owns less than 1 percent of foreign-owned land.